What’s so funny?

This is from the fifth edition of the Near-Earth Object newsletter,  to which you can and should subscribe, right here .

How do you make political satire when the real political universe is already a parody of itself? I’m hardly the first to ask a question like this, but some recent events have made this question more salient than it has been for a while.

To be effective, political satire begins with what we know to be true (or at least plausible) about a given individual, group, or issu...